Sentence examples for much detective from inspiring English sources
Figuring out how to get millions of records of birdwatching data from eBird into GIS to do analysis with them didn't require any archive visits but took just as much detective skill.
We did a little (not much) detective work and got this (unreliable) dope on the writer: "He's a guy I met on a train.
Watching the documentary, it becomes clear how much detective work Valerie and her family have done themselves, and how much of a toll it has taken.
Even if I failed to notice it for many years, it didn't take much detective work to realise that I am inhabited by a Wise Old Man, who is constantly challenged by a vivacious young female.
Installed in Manhattan in a "grim apartment … with views of two dirty brick walls in the stinking summer heat", SH works at a desk she's built herself from "two-by-fours and a plywood sheet" on a novel whose teenage hero, Ian, "read so much detective fiction as a boy that his mother worried his eye would be strained".
Russell, who has done much detective work tracking down people and places in the watercolours, set out to identify the location of all 24 original shops – butcher, baker and confectioner, furrier, submarine engineer (selling diving suits), the oyster bar, amusement arcade and so on (the clerical outfitter and the cheesemonger are still trading from the same premises).
Had there been some advance warning of the plot – even a sliver, even "a figure from Hardy's past comes back to haunt him" – then I would have been more content to just go along for the ride, without ruining the first episode by doing so much ridiculous detective work in preparation.
Hawkins calls in that Michael killed Bird and Captain Harper tells her precinct to use deadly force to bring Michael in, much to Detective Vega's surprise.
A few days later, I got a call from a much nicer detective who was taking over my case – it had become an investigation into multiple rape incidents.
A few days later, I got a call from a much nicer detective who was taking over my case it had become an investigation into multiple rape incidents.
Of course, you should never tamper with a cop's cup of joe, so it didn't take much expert detective work to catch Hildreth sticking his nose where it didn't belong.
